Conquest, the transfer of values through empire building and wars served us well but with nuclear weapons at our disposal we certainly need to evolve.

Or collectively perish.

Good point. It is greed that is one of the big factors of the rationalised and unrationised aspects of ego.

Primitive in its form and found in almost every animal it’s of course holds the species back but also keeps it in check as self/preservation is the fear of perishing which stops the next madman with trigger fingers from blasting our whole progress back to square one.

If I start feeling apathy to those who are oppressed then I know there’s something wrong.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/i-went-undercover-to-expose-abuse-at-a-mental-health-hospital/

Evidence based biases such as these permeate the field as my dear brother committed suicide whilst on medication.

You haven’t, most likely have misconstrued my tone.

At this point I accept that no scientific answer is forthcoming.

Although, I am riled as I had a brother who committed suicide in such an institute.

Then, please elaborate on a soldier who does the same on a battlefield to the typical serial killer.

Make sure to includes things like obligation to the government he serves etc.

I have done my research I’m checking if you’ve done yours. Avoiding the question says to me you haven’t got a clue.

How can you distinguish the inner monologue that each human being is born with, with the schizophrenic voice?

A trait that channeled correctly can produce a half decent CEO. Still doesn’t answer the question of how things can be improved as a psycho CEO obviously wouldn’t give a damn about the damage he does to the environment as long as he keeps his shareholders, his job and income healthy.

Quick question. If by self admission of hearing voices an individual commits harm toward another is handled by psychiatric institutions then why does the other type of criminal behaviour where no voice is heard handled by the regular justice system.

What is the difference here between two killers for example … who both commit the same crime but one claims he heard voice/god/Steve Jobs tell him to do it and the other committed the murder as per standard killer behaviour.

Why should there be two distinctions ?

I like that.

My point is that intellect and morality are not intrinsically linked.

The misuse of high IQ for example has produced some of the US most prolific serial killers.

The Tempest - By some guy called William or other

Simply a conclusion on the subject not just of my own but a few knowledgable others.

My last comment actually downplays the evil of psychology and the application of it through psychiatry.

From frontal lobotomies which is akin to trepanning or blood-letting in the other side of medicinal science which is concerned with body rather than mind problems.

Whilst the body only side of medicine is able to make good use of the scientific method, psychology still remains in the dark ages unfortunately.

With the bigger interests of pharma at play in providing so called cures for various non-physical/mind ailments it makes it hard for real progress to occur in this field at the moment

I have a book on my shelf which is called the Lucifer Effect. The irony of it is that psychiatry can not even diagnose itself.

I think the topic here is over thought.


It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.

Good reply. In the face of it it’s ultimately the human agent which will make the decision and act upon the multitude of information whether that be right or wrong is a subject for another topic.

Taxation will always be a fine balancing act debt for example delays the individuals ability to gain a foothold on life’s many essentials such as housing proving for their offspring and other everyday commodities. The wealthy on the other hand might have charity in mind but proper deployment of their wealth to the disenfranchised has the difficulty of falling into corrupt hands where it is needed the most

What suffering are we taking about the end of life kind or the emotional kind ?

What was that ? insulting a dead slave owner by playing his flute or complimenting him … what actually happened and what was her message ?

As we are given the senses that we have through evolution and furthermore intellect reason logic and context derived morality. A human being is not limited by the senses gifted to it by evolutionary processes alone. In this regard they have the ability to affect their own evolution to enhance those very senses bestowed by nature.

You’re probably referring to Scandinavian nations in that last post. Systems which fare quite well and provide a very fair version of capitalism with responsible redistribution of taxable income through the various layers of society.

Non-awareness of self is when we’re lost in the task at hand. Boredom is when we get good at it

I’m not at all up to speed on Brazilian politics but the act of selling off the amazon to soulless corporations whose CEO’s will have shuffled off this mortal coil without a penny next to their rotting corpse goes to show that they do not care to the environmental damage they cause during their brief existence on this beautiful blue planet.

I found most of Dawkins arguments quoted as irrelevant.

Hey hey now. Not sure if you’re putting me in that bracket. Although I express personal opinion on the above matters I do tend to outline it with some reason behind it rather than just one sentence opinion of personal tastes.

Personally I love the simulation although the sex could be better …and what the hell is up with viagra on all this…

Anyway…it’s definitely a cool thing this so called world I kinda like and as for death itself what the hell is it anyway ? Must be similar to sleep

Because it’s the future we’re talking about and an enhancement of a human beings cognitive ability will give them an advantage in a competitive capitalistic society.

An offshoot of my original post for sure but still relevant

Ok fine. Without speculating too much into the future or post-humanism for that matter I firmly believe that human beings are still evolving. Being in a symbiotic and not parasitic relationship with whatever future tech enhancement in terms of our ability to make sense of the ever increasing sensory input which society should most likely address and whether it is worth perusing either ignore this development is something that should be consider be each sentient human being

I don’t see how a society that will slowly euthanise itself can be seen as optimistic in any given context perhaps you could elaborate ?

Scarcity of resources will not mean any of the things you have forecasted. It will probably mean reduced population and whether the overall level of happuness will increase or decrease is and will be something that is hard to predict for sure.

Slightly pessimistic outlook which could potentially be true but highly unlikely. Not wanting to envision utopia I think things will most likely remain the same if not get better. I do in fact it will get better being a firm believer of quality over quantity in terms of the level of citizens in a given future society.

God must be an atheisti.

Maslow hierarchy of needs has clearly demonstrated this. Don’t know why i didn’t quite mention it.

Correct! You see and I’ve read Christoffers point he has made. Although not truly misguided in terms of cost savings automaton goes only so far as the human engineers ingenuity is able to automate certain tasks.

Let’s take mining of raw materials as an example or even oil drilling which is where the real money is. Human prospecting still remains crucial for the identification of certain oil rich sites. Machines will still be able to identify these so called rich areas of oil. Clever AI will do the trick but the programmer still has to deploy the bloody machine in the first place

Clever that entrepreneurs are certainly taking advantage of incompetent government. Richard Branson for example sued the fuckers. Don’t know if he actually won.

This is the thing about people like Branson and other types of entrepreneurs they have no limits as to who they target to extract money from.

As my ISP is indeed VIRGIN MEDIA I’m staying clear of the fucker.

An aside, economics, wealth and prosperity should be guided by the human compass of providing the basic needs of every soul that is bore of it.

Tech gizmos can be helpful or they can be a dangerous distraction to mental well-being.

Depression, loneliness, detachment from reality through lack of real social interaction and thus reduced basic social skills remains an issue to be addressed.

It takes a village to raise a child but what we have now is the village idiot given a platform to troll chatbots and not provide for his wife in the bedroom

Facebook, as an example, are pushing free internet to poor nations, not as a sign of goodwill, but to get more people onto their platform. — Christoffer

Echoes of Adam Smith my fav Scot btw.

In terms of the latest tech developments which will either stall and stagnate or slowly advance with the use of clever robotic automation for the means of producing it begs the question as to the redundancy and shift of human consciousness and perhaps labour.

With over abundant workforce and general population education needs to play an important part in skilling them towards this new future.

Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein (just to name a few)…glorious indeed.

Being content, finding joy in the little things and accepting the world as incredible incompetent incomplete and hopeful.

I guess this is the problem of the internet age but is it an opportunity? Not sure…

I mean by all means feel free to consume my content but this is the thing with publishing things online…it’s hard to articulate my thoughts on this feel like I’m dancing in the dark with a doll